Mar 13, 2025 | Copyright, News
With the sentence I ZR 16/24, published on the 25th of February 2025, the German Federal Court rejected Birkenstock’s appeal excluding copyright protection for the shape of some well-known sandal models. The German copyright law, the Urheberrechtsgesetz of...
Feb 18, 2025 | Copyright, News
On Thursday 20th Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi Veli will contribute to ‘Food&Wine and Art: economic synergies and legal implications’, the meeting, organised by Maria Katharina Rauchenberger, Legal & Compliance Director of Ruffino 1877 and AIGI –...
Feb 17, 2025 | Copyright, News
The recent Birkenstock case presented to the German Federal Court of Justice raises a crucial question: can the design of an iconic fashion product be protected as a work of art? Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena discuss it in this Tech Art Shoes...
Jan 27, 2025 | Copyright, News
About imitation and what makes iconic a shape for copyright: we discussed the very recent Birkenstock case with Il Sole 24 ore. Here is the article by Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena:...
Nov 29, 2024 | Copyright, News
Manufacturing: how to protect one’s creations without compromising growth? Manufacturing companies are among the main users of AI-based systems, but the increasing pervasiveness of these technologies is raising new complex challenges when it comes to...
Nov 18, 2024 | Copyright, News
Just a few days ago, news broke of the first work of art created by AI and sold at auction by Sotheby’s for one million euros. It is a topic that calls for reflections on copyright and how the law protects the intellectual property of artistic creations, where...
